Fluid treating composition and method of making same



Patented Sept. 3, 1940 Q v UNITED STATES PATENT other FLUID TREATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Bruno Montero, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to Investo Company, Baldwin Park, Calif., a corporation ofNevada NoDrawing. Application October 27, 1939,

Serial No. 301,633

Claims. (Cl. 23-113) This invention relates to a chemical composiwhich sulphuric, hydrochloric and carbonic acids tion of matter for treating fiuids and the method will not injure.

of making same. This composition not only re- The following are the steps to be followed, and moves lime from the water but also separates quantities by avoirdupois weight (except the 5 therefrom the magnesium it may contain. water, which is measured) of the ingredients 5 The present application is a continuation in used in making the composition of matter to part of my earlier application entitled Water which this invention pertains: softening composition and method of making In two liquid ounces of Water (any water suitsame, Serial No. 154,395, filed July 19, 1937. able for domestic use) dissolve one ounce and The invention pertains to a composition of a '72 grains of ordinary undehyclrated, granular granular character which does not dissolve in commercial aluminum sulfate, preferably havwater but has the property of attracting the ing the formula (A12(SO4)3.18H2O); and 175 molecules of calcium and magnesium from the grains of sodium chloride (NaC-l), preferably in body of water brought into contact therewith. a finely granular condition (dairy salt). Into 1 This product is an industrial product. The the liquid solution thus produced pour five ounces 15 materials used are obtainable on the market in and 335 grains of sodium silicate, forty degrees large amounts and at low cost. Beaum density, and consisting of Nazo 8.85%, Furthermore, as all products used are stand- SiOz 28.5%, H2O 62.65%. By stirring in well this ard, if preferred, all proportions may be estilast ingredient an immediate coagulation is mated by volume and not by Weight, and all caused to take place, and there is at once pro- 20 operations performed at ordinary temperatures duced a uniform product consisting of a granuwithout artificially heating or cooling. Also as lar precipitate of insoluble grains wherein the this product is industrial and not a drug, such grains cluster together in a lumpy mass, a small small variations as might occur in particle size quantity of liquid that can be decanted off reand amount of packing, etc., do not materially maining. After decanting off said liquid the alter the quality of the final product. granular part is washed by pouring water there- The filtering material provided by this invenonto, stirring and decanting. Or a vat having a tion acts efiectively in filtering and bleaching bottom outlet covered by a fine mesh sieve may both vegetable and mineral oils. It can also be be used for this flushing with water and draining used, by filtration, to remove various impurities 01f operation. When the ingredients have been from acids. properly mixed, one complete Washing will suf- It is an important object of the invention to fice. I provide for more rapid and economical produc- After the product has thus been Washed it is tion of an efiicient water softening composition of passed through a sieve, desirably of a twenty matter, by avoiding the necessity of taking the (20) mesh, this being preferably done while the 35 .time hitherto required to dry water softening sieve and t e produc ppo thereby are compositions before they are in a condition for maintained submerged under water. The size of use. Although water softening compositions in. the grains thus produced will be determined by some respects similar to that to which this inthe size of the meshes of the sieve through which vention pertains have hitherto been produced, the product is passed. Thegrains thus produced 40 it has, thus far, been found necessary to dry them are of a highly porous character, are insoluble in slowly thereby converting them from jellies of water, and are of a very desirable q y for the kind that cannot be broken up into granules Water filtering and S te g. The quick formawhich maintain their separate character during tion o a unifOrm product is believed 130 be due use, into sumciently dry, granular products to to the fact that into a more highly concentrated 45 be usable as filtering substances and to soft aluminum sulfate solution than has been hitherwater. This invention provides for the more o used f r a im p p is poured nd q i krapid and economical manufacture of the com- 1y mixed the sodium Silicate The mixing nposition owing to it being ready for use immeoration is continued until a uniform hardness of diately after the ingredients thereof have been the grains is produced. When, for example a .combined with each other. The relative amount pound (avoirdupois) or less of the ingredients of water required to make this composition is are mixed together the mixing operation can be very small. completed within five minutes. Actual tests have Another object of the invention is to produce shown that this product can be used for many a water softening and fluid filtering product months under usual domestic city water pres- 55 sures without any lessening of its efficiency or diminishing of its volume, for water filtering and. purifying.

By the granular condition of the precipitate specified in the appended claims is meant a condition wherein the product is reduced to particles the cross-sectional dimensions of which are restricted to a size that will adapt it for use in a body of material through which the liquid to be treated is caused to percolate, said granules being of a non-sticky and non-slimy character so that they do not adhere to each other but which, when formed into a filtering body and as such subjected to ordinary city water pressure for ,many months will still afford interstices between them through which the water being filtered may gpercolate.

The size of the granules into which the product will be broken up by passing it through a sieve, or otherwise, will be determined by the kind of fluid to be treated. It is desirable to use small granules, where practicable, because the smaller the granules the greater the surface area presented to the fluid being treated.

The product produced by this process cannot be destroyed by sulphuric, hydrochloric or carbonic acids in any degree of concentration. For example, this product can be immersed in a solution of fifty per cent water and fifty per cent of sulphuric acid (H2804) for many hours without disqualifying said product for water softening and filtering purposes.

I claim:

1. A method of making an artificial base exchanging composition of matter which consists in dissolving in approximately every two liquid ounces of water used approximately one ounce and '72 grains (avoirdupois) aluminum sulfate, (A12(SO4)3.18-I-I2O); adding to this solution 1'75 grains chloride of sodium (NaCl) and then mixing into this solution five ounces and 335 grains (avoirdupois) of sodium silicate, 40 degrees Beaum density and. consisting of NazO 8.85%,

SiOz 28.5%, H2O 62.65%; then passing the resulting precipitate without drying through a sieve of I approximately a twenty mesh.

2. The subject matter of claim 1 and, washing said precipitate in commercially pure water.

3. The subject matter of claim 1 and, washing said precipitate in commercially pure water before passing itthrough said sieve.

4. The subject matter of claim 1 and, washing said precipitate in water after passing it through said sieve.

5. A method. of making an artificial base exchanging composition of matter which consists in dissolving in approximately every two liquid ounces of water used approximately one ounce and 72 grains (avoirdupois) aluminum sulfate, (Al2(S04)3.18H2O); adding to this solution 1'75 grains chloride of sodium (NaCl) and then mix ing into the resulting solution five ounces and 335 grains (avoirdupois) of sodium silicate, 40 degrees Beaum density and consisting of NazO 8.85%, SiOz 28.5%, H2O 62.65%; then reducing the resulting precipitate without drying into a granular condition.

.BRUNO MONTERO. 

